We would like to hear your feed back on this subject this doesn't mean we are replacing them we would just like to know your thoughts on the subject.

Positives for using pillars over gantrys

1. Space Saver uses less room
2. No limitations on how big a experimental can be the Fatboy and czar can be built using a pillar!
3. Looks better :P
4. Pillars will have research upgrades
5. Was made by Avitus should be better than a GPG unit HAHA

WE HAVE DECIDED THE NEW MOTHER SHIP AND FATBOY WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE FROM THE WARP PILLARS, REVAMP 1.2 WILL HAVE NO LAND BUILT MOBILE EXPERIMENTALS APART FROM NAVAL.

Yes warp pillars save space, but isnt that the whole thing to building experimentals? Shouldnt space be something almost required? I mean it makes things interesting with large gantries. I think gantries add to the gameplay, I think the pillars take away. I would rather have a factory then a teleportation device. Thats just me.

I think that pillars are best. It helps the mod team, and means our units can be as large as we like. Also, there's always that awkward stumbling your expies have to do to get out of a crowded base's gantry, which could be averted using a warp pillar with an area of spawnage. And yes, it looks better. :)

The problem with this is if we have both the AI will only use the gantry's i have no access to the AIs factory manager table which is in the games engine/EXE, So i cant add the pillars for the AI to build.

How the mod works is i replace the gantrys with the pillars for the AI, Then i create a new pillar unit for human players so the build icon is right, I cant replace the gantry's icons there in a folder which is 1gb.

Both look amazing and neither deserve to be cut from the game. Perhaps gantry's can have defensive upgrades (anti-air turret, missile turret...) like regular buildings making them very hard to destroy. Warp pillars on the other hand can be researched for ease and convenience but be much more expensive and fragile.

With the pillars experimental units might not be something that is hastily manufactured in the field but rather warped in from another location. It would be like the original SupCom where SACUs were not built in a field factory but teleported into the field from another location via warp gate. Would be nice from a fluff standpoint.

I prefer gantries but if the pillars win out I would like to suggest:
1)Get rid of the blue vortex thing which appears when constructing a unit. It obscures the top of the tower (which looks good with the logo) and also looks odd if you change the camera angle as it sits so high in the air...if you drop a vehicle from that height you would smash it.
2)As an alternative could you make the tower "draw in" the experimental just like the original fat boy is currently drawn in in the current Revamp version. This way you still get the feeling of anticipation/excitement as you see it nearly completed and it looks cool as well. This way the half-baked construction function would also work well/still make sense. The only way an opponent could stop construction would be to destroy the tower (just like with gantries).

Something just dropping from the sky just doesn't feel right and looses its epicness.

LOL "if you drop a vehicle from that height you would smash it" Its not dropped -_- its teleported -_-, Also the effect is a worm hole when the unit comes though its teleported to the ground is that to hard to understand -_-.

My apologies, I did not notice the teleport effect but on taking a second look you are of course correct. However, I do feel your attempt at mockery was not really necessary. My other points are still valid though as I am hardly the only one to express that the current teleporting mechanism does not feel as good as the original gantry entry. They are merely suggestions though, no need to get personal.
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Nobody is taking anything personal, and as a matter of fact, when I saw your post, it was a bit harsh (the criticism) in the first place, since you were making fun of the whole teleportation animation system, something people spend hours at modelling or programming it so that you can have fun with it ;)
Suggestions are always nice, as long as creative criticism....but do not forget the "creative" part guys...

There is no way I was trying to make fun of it, my genuine initial impression was that the XP literally dropped out of the teleporter. I freely admit I was wrong but I was just describing what I thought I saw and was certainly not trying to mock it. Upsetting the creators was also not my intention as that just sabotages my own cause. In any case, if that is how my message was perceived then I am sorry, perhaps I could have chosen my words more carefully as I do appreciate you guys put in a lot of hours. Thanks.

Keep the gantry. Warp pillars should be expensive as hell, but also allow access to all experimentals (unlike gantries, which would offer lower level ones). Effects for pillars should include slowly warping the object out of the ground over time, not immediately. Let people have base defenses other than stockpile gantries and resources to TP in the best units at the last minute.

I voted yes, but just a minor question, will the warp pillars have any defensive upgrades? Just wondering because I always found the old gantries annoying to defend due to their size and always wished they had built in defenses.